Reported: the Revolve axis could only be the sketch plane's X or Y axis
through its origin, so a half-profile drawn beside a centerline, the
usual way, could not be revolved about that centerline.
- CadFeature::revolve_axis_entity names a Line of the profile sketch to
revolve about (a construction centerline, or an edge of the profile
itself); -1 keeps revolve_axis. Appended at the end of the framed
recipe, so existing projects load and rebuild unchanged. Revolve and
Surface Revolve resolve their axis in one place (revolve_axis_of); an
index that no longer names a line fails with a reason.
- SketchEngine::make_revolve takes the world axis. A profile with points
on both sides of it is refused with "the profile crosses the revolve
axis"; MakeRevol failed there with no reason.
- The Axis list of both cards reads Plane X, Plane Y, then every line of
the sketch, named as the constraint list names them (Centerline E4,
Line E3). A fresh revolve preselects the sketch's centerline when it
has exactly one. The gizmo turns about the chosen axis and draws it
dashed; construction lines no longer pull its centre.
Tests: a rectangle beside a construction centerline revolves into the
tube of the expected volume along that line; about its own edge, into a
cylinder; an axis through it is refused with the reason; a stale axis
index fails with a reason; the axis survives save and load. The
truncated-recipe test accounts for the new tail field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
Reported: once extruded, a part is hard to read; the lighting says
little about its shape. Both lights of the object shaders sit near the
camera, so the sides of a part come out in almost the same tone, and
nothing marks where one face ends and the next begins.
- The phong shader gains a studio lighting model, chosen by a new
lighting_model uniform: a sky/ground hemisphere in world space (up
faces cool and bright, down faces warm and dark), a key light from the
upper left and a weak fill from the right, a plastic-like highlight,
and a darker base with a faint sheen toward the silhouette so curved
faces read as round. GLCanvas3D::set_studio_lighting() makes a canvas
draw its objects with it whatever the realistic-view preferences; only
the Design canvas turns it on. Every canvas sets the uniform on each
use, 0 for the slicer's, so they render as before.
- Every B-rep edge of a body is drawn as a thin dark line over it, depth
tested and pulled a few pixels toward the eye so it wins against the
faces meeting at it and hides behind the faces in front. The seam of a
closed surface and degenerate edges are left out
(GeometryEngine::display_edges). Edges are sampled once per shape and
kept across recomputes that leave a body unchanged; bodies faded by
body focus get fainter edges, and a dress-up previewing its result
alone hides them with the bodies.
Tests: display_edges gives a box its 12 edges at their lengths, a
cylinder its two round rims without the seam, a cone its base rim
without the seam or the apex.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
Reported on the rig: Text showed no preview where it would go, its
dialog was pinned over the middle of the window (GNOME attaches a modal
dialog to its parent and it cannot be moved), and once confirmed the
text could not be edited and did not appear in the feature tree. Inside
an open sketch it became loose lines of that sketch.
- Text is always a feature, "Text N" in the tree. A new text goes on the
plane of the open sketch (committed first when it holds anything,
closed when it is empty), else centred on the picked face, else on the
reference plane.
- The dialog is modeless and opens at the top right of the window. The
feature is created at the first character and redrawn on every change,
so the text appears in the view where it will be as it is typed. Enter
inserts it, then the usual move/scale gizmo and Confirm; Esc, Cancel or
closing the dialog takes it out again (undo to the checkpoint taken
when it appeared).
- CadFeature keeps text_string, text_font (the WxFontUtils descriptor)
and text_height, appended at the end of the framed recipe. Editing a
Text feature reopens the dialog with them and redraws the outline in
place, keeping its placement. The outlines are still saved, so the
project opens the same on a machine without that font.
- The MCP control refuses writes while the Text dialog is open.
Tests: the text parameters survive a save and load along with the
outline; the truncated-recipe test accounts for the new tail fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
A sketch drawn on the rig extruded to walls with no caps. Every joint of
its loop met, so the loop analysis called it closed and MakeFace
accepted it, but the loop crossed itself: an arc left the top line's end
heading back over it and crossed it again 2.5 mm on. A second arc left a
0.28 mm line tangent to it but the other way, a cusp. The prism of that
face is an invalid solid, and it was shipped as a body.
- SketchEngine::wires_to_face checks the face it builds and, when OCCT
calls it invalid, fails with "the profile crosses or folds back on
itself, so it does not bound one region". The extrude reports that
instead of producing the broken body.
- sketch_loop_defect() judges a closed loop of lines and arcs exactly:
any contact between two of its entities away from the joints they
share, or a joint where the curve turns straight back (a cusp; OCCT
still builds that one, but it is never what was meant). It returns the
point.
- The sketch uses it on every region: the loop is tinted red, the point
gets a marker, and the status line says what the red means the first
time one appears. The MCP loop report lists the defects and no longer
calls such a profile buildable.
Tests: the rig's profile, with each defect and with both, from a
recording of the real entities. The analysis names the cusp at its joint
and the crossing on the top line, in either traversal order, and
passes ordinary tangent and collinear joints. The extrude refuses every
crossing variant with the reason, and the same arcs swept the other way
round extrude to a valid solid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
A solid edge could only be picked one at a time, and Fillet/Chamfer took
either that one edge or a whole face group. Rounding three chosen edges
meant three features, whose edge ids each resolve against a body the
previous one had already changed.
- Shift+click (or Ctrl+click) on an edge of the body already picked adds
it to the selection, or removes it; the same modifiers that extend a
sketch selection. The whole set is highlighted. A plain click replaces
it, as before.
- Fillet/Chamfer dresses every picked edge in ONE feature at one size,
all ids resolved against the same body. The card says "3 edges", the
status line and the offer header name the count.
- CadFeature gains dressup_edges, appended at the end of the framed
recipe, so existing projects load and rebuild unchanged. dressup_edge
keeps the first edge, so an older build opening a newer project still
dresses that edge instead of falling back to the face group.
- The MCP fillet/chamfer verbs take `edge` as one id or an array.
Tests: a fillet on the four picked top edges equals the Top face group
exactly; the list survives save/load; two opposite chamfers remove
exactly twice one; a missing id fails with a reason. The truncated-
recipe test accounts for the new tail field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
- Text opens a dialog instead of a bare text entry: any installed font
(bold, italic), the height in mm, and a live outline of exactly what
will be inserted with its size. Enter inserts, Esc cancels; the last
font and height are remembered. text_to_regions gains an overload
taking a loaded font.
- The offer menu opens with a greyed title naming what the rows act on
("Flat face 4 of Body 2", "Sketch line", "Nothing selected").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
- Offer table: user-facing strings carry the L() marker so xgettext
extracts them; DesignOffer.hpp, DesignSketchTool.cpp and
SketchInlineEditor.cpp are listed in localization/i18n/list.txt.
- Offer: model-mode Constrain sits in the same row as the sketch one;
Interference is wired; Rib shows its R key; a verb that accepts the
selection but is blocked by the document stays greyed with its reason
instead of vanishing from the submenu; one refusal wording per verb.
- Extrude infers Join when the profile touches a solid (new
CadDocument::body_touching_sketch) and on face push/pull; New body in
free space. Revolve/Sweep/Loft/Boolean use the same result words.
- Interference and volume/area reports go to the status line in mm3/mm2
instead of modal dialogs; Delete Body no longer asks (it is undoable).
- New feature names match the card header ("Extrude 3"), translated;
"Coordinate system", "Angle (°)", center/color spelling, translated
face and length readouts, slot hints say width.
- CAD gizmos in Prepare are selectable only with the CAD feature on; the
sketch auto-close setting is stored per design.
- Docs: confirm/cancel rules, enabling the feature and MCP in
design_tab.md; drift-only right-click in interaction-model.md; the
portability note rewritten to describe the integration as it is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
Keyboard and mouse
- Esc drops what is pending (picks, a dimension's first point, an edit-op or transform) and
never applies it; Enter applies a ready edit-op/transform, ends a polyline/spline chain,
ends an armed tool, and confirms a feature card exactly when its ✓ is enabled.
- Right-click only abandons the gesture in progress; with nothing pending it opens the offer
in every tool (Trim, edit-ops, transforms, Dimension, Constrain, TransformArt, move gizmo).
Clicking empty space no longer commits. The offer needs no timing, only a still press.
- Delete removes only an explicit selection. Undo/redo inside a sketch go through the same
route as the buttons (whole shapes, with redo); Edit > Undo follows the shown tab.
- The canvas no longer handles Delete/Esc/Ctrl+Z itself (Backspace in a value field deleted
the geometry it measured); F is in the panel's key map.
- Value fields: a refused value keeps the field open with the reason; click outside and Tab
commit; an untouched field commits the exact value; any decimal separator is accepted;
lengths are always mm; validation is the same for every editor.
- Snapping: the marker shows only where the click will actually snap; pick tolerances are
one set of pixel budgets (Constrain picks within reach; no mm floor on labels).
Messages and consistency
- set_status(kind, text) gives every status line its own colour and glyph; kernel errors are
translated into sentences and formatted, not concatenated; sketch refusals go to the status
line instead of the per-frame HUD that erased them.
- Hints describe the gestures that now work; Dimension shows its second step; Constrain uses
the sketch palette (red means conflict only); the straight slot's value is its width.
- Hole/Thread/Project keep the user's pick or refuse up front; circular pattern opens with its
own preview; thread fields use the nominal diameter and the ISO internal depth.
Integration
- MCP loads the project's recipe before touching the document, refuses to mutate it while the
tab is busy, never runs a request that already timed out, only replaces a socket at its
path, caps line length and removes the socket at exit; not started in the G-code viewer.
- Hiding a feature keeps later body references on their bodies; a design keeps its modeling
origin across printer changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9
Claude